http://www.theauthoritarians.com

Online book by Dr. Bob Altemeyer explaining the right wing pathology of this kind of thing. Based on decades of empirical award winning research. This guy is the real deal.

It's an easy read as it was written for laypeople. Took me 4 hours or so to plug through the 7 chapters.

You'll finally understand the Bush 30% diehards.

It just sounds like they live in a much more exciting world than I do.

Of those comments I think Mrs. Schiffren's last one about her confusion regarding what Muslims need is perhaps not only one of the most offensive things I've heard, but the dichotomy between sexual freedom and puritanical morality is perhaps the most honest though probably unintentional revelations from a conservative about what its like to be a conservative. Factor in her bizarre fixation on public gay sex and leash laws for dogs in another country, and one must wonder what it is she would like to outlaw, that she herself would like to be doing.

Who needs a therapist?

I'll read after a porch leek.

The Right Wing are Sick and Wrong. Gads.

The right-wing need some Procter & Gamble soap.

The right-wing need to be curbed like a scrounge mutt.

Poor Glenn. You do go each day and scoop up the bad dung.

For Easter ~ someone should award you a shiny silver shovel.

GG says,

"And, as a result, we have exactly the country one would expect when people who have these beliefs are empowered."

What is most frightening about that is, who empowers? The market for those thoughts and expressions is some portion of the base population of our country. This is what is most disturbing about much of what has taken place over the last 10 years. Is the mass support for this sputum manipulated and controlled by a narrowing, and right-wing oriented media conflagration, or is our country just made up of a bunch of wrong-headed bozos?

I'm really hoping the train gets back on the tracks this November. That will be the real test for our country's survivability. I'd pray, but I'm not convinced that a phone-line exists.

cliff

shouldn't he be asked if he supports their views?

When looking for this kind of bizarre quote, need we go any farther than George W. Bush seeking to justify retroactive telecom immunity yesterday by ominously chiding House Democrats for "playing politics with the past" instead of immunizing it with a political sleight of hand today?

Is that materially different from the Ruler of Swamp Castle in Monty Python's Holy Grail who, upon introducing the "very rich and influential" Sir Lancelot back to the throng Lancelot has just viciously attacked, brushes off the crowd's protests with "Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who"....

Yeah, this spying stuff may have been a felony but, hey, that was in the past. We monarchs only have to look ahead. It's a mindset that just cannot exist in a democratic country ruled by a system of laws -- and it's the mindset of our President.

I guess it would be asking too much of Mona Charen to do any research before putting her foot in her mouth. She could have read Barack’s book or today’s NYT article on what sounds to me like a wonderful mother.

Kansas was merely a way station in her childhood, wheeling westward in the slipstream of her furniture-salesman father. In Hawaii, she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologist, wrote an 800-page dissertation on peasant blacksmithing in Java, worked for the Ford Foundation, championed women’s work and helped bring microcredit to the world’s poor.

http://tinyurl.com/3brl7z

Isn't this in part indicative if the bigotry that comes from the typical conservative/Republican sense of victimhood? "'They' are ruining our country, our world, my life. We must fear 'them,' mock 'them,' hate 'them.'"

If your opponent links directly to your content without commenting on it, you've undoubtedly made a tactical error.

Michelle Malkin and the "Loser cheer" comes to mind as the formative example.

I think this post would have been even stronger if you had just let their words speak for themselves and not bothered with the paraphrasing.

Yesterday Carlson had a segment about that one poll and how the war is now supported, and that is good for McCain. He had one guest, a democratic congressman, who in response to the first question conceded that the majority support it now.

It's incredible.

...is having trouble finding a place where she can get it on with her dog, without the threat of being targeted by a Muslim, I'm sorry. But we should have known about this six months ago, and I am not sure she loves her country as much as her white mother. Maybe she should follow Dick Cheney and become a heart transplant donor. Rumor has it that ventricular fibrillation is the only thing Dick Cheney finds shocking.

I'm personally afraid of dogs. There was a reason I didn't become a conservative!

Here in Glenn's place this morning this series of RWA lunacies pointedly accentuates the need for constant in-your-face ridicule of these bozos. The post-9/11-trauma over-sensitivity of the general public has pretty much abated now, I think. More and more, the cognitive dissonance among our current political and economic challenges, Rule of Law crises, and Republican mis-management recedes?

It is a sunny day?

Glenn's conclusion suggests that the state of your nation could be significantly improved if these commentators and pundits were, metaphorically at least, run outta town.

I wonder what, say, the Dixie Chicks, Jimmy-the-Greek, Bill Maher or Geraldine Ferraro might suggest you do?

I know you were born Jewish.

I just hope that on next Christmas Holiday season,

the the ill-creeps don't scream you are too agnostic.

If the GOP get stoned, they may show their true nature?

The Right's perverted mentality may mean they stone hens?

The egg-layers complain the brown egg is scrambled with cheese. But taste the best.

Pretty soon the GOPS will boil Easter eggs and stop killing human's reputations. It's called 'character assassination. You are helping the Fearful Right Wing Cats to look into a looking glass. The constricted inner-being in each troll for fear & death do Thank you deep down @ heart, ... If they examine their choice of Self-rancid ineptitude, that is... Let's individually hope.

Oh, ah. Bad livelihood?

Love thy neighbor. okay.